@passingnotes Hey David, thanks! We're considering using a similar model as GitHub - all free accounts have to make their crawlers public and only paid accounts can have them private. Do you think people would be okay with that?

Apifier is a web scraper that extracts structured data from any website using a few simple lines of JavaScript. For example, imagine you found a website selling shoes and want to get a spreadsheet with all the shoe sizes, colors, prices etc. You could create such a spreadsheet manually using copy and paste, but that would take you a lot of time and frustration. Or you could setup Apifier to do this for you in a few seconds. Apifier is a startup to launch from the YC Fellowship.

Hi Hunters, we’re Jan and Jakub, the makers of Apifier.
About a year ago we looked for a web scrapper for one of our consulting projects but none of the existing ones actually worked for websites that we needed. So we decided to build a new one. Unlike the point-and-click web scrapers, Apifier doesn't run into troubles with complicated or dynamic websites and you don't need to work around a new user interface when you start using it - you define your scraper using the same JavaScript code that you already use for your front-end web development.
We’re looking forward to hear what you think! We’ll be around to answer any questions.